Path: chuka.playstation.co.uk!scea!peter_alau@playstation.sony.com From: Elliott Lee Newsgroups: scee.yaroze.freetalk.english Subject: Re: Giving Code Date: Thu, 01 Oct 1998 19:02:33 -0700 Organization: Bwahaha Lines: 50 Message-ID: <36143439.38D0B3BA@shell.jps.net> References: <3613857a.4432702@news.playstation.co.uk> Reply-To: tenchi@shell.jps.net NNTP-Posting-Host: dhcp-m-62-237.cisco.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.03 [en] (Win95; U) Tanvir, I can't speak for other people, but I give out code so that you (and everyone else) can either use it or learn from it. The Yaroze project (IMHO) is too small to be worrying about cannibals stealing and plagiarising each other's code. Sure there has been at least one incident, but the majority of the time most people are pretty well- mannered. I figure it this way: withhold knowledge and you stunt growth. The whole point of the Yaroze was to develop an international coding community dedicated to producing top-notch (for amateur-level) software (notice I didn't say just "games"). And, in many respects, I think we've all been able to help each other develop some very nice looking projects. I point to the recent GDUK as a perfect example--- but certainly not the only. I hope that you, too, will contribute to the Yaroze community. Giving out code is not by any means compulsory; it is of your own free will. - e! Tanvir Khan wrote: > > Hi there, > > I'm just writing in to ask why people give out the source code to > their games? I mean it's very kind of them as Iearned a bit about > coding this way through tutorials and small programs, that's ok as > they are meant to teach, but if there's a game someone of proud of > they should not give out the code IMO. > > Don't get me wrong I respect those people who like to share their > talent with the rest. I mean if no one shared their code I would have > no idea of what to do. > > ___________________________________ > Tanvir Khan Emag Design > ------------------------------------------------------------- > 2bad@lineone.net > ------------------------------------------------------------- > http://www.netyaroze-europe.com/~tanvirk > ___________________________________ -- Mata ne, ... ... - e! ::' tenchi@shell.jps.net ':: (Protocol) :: ACiD -/- ACS -/- pHluid -/- Yaroze -/- Nemesis :: (Tenchikun) ::. http://www.jps.net/tenchi .:: ''' '''